Posts about SUSE

A summary of the steps to install Minecraft with Forge, the two Forge mods "Raspberry Jam Mod" and "PythonTool Mod" and configure the coding environment to my preferred arrangement. I am using this on my own computers (work's Mac, and my openSUSE PCs) as well as my son's Windows 10 PC.

Well, my stint in *buntu is over, and it ends with an award to openSUSE: this is the first Linux distro I've returned to.

Kubuntu is nice, and I'm happy that I've tried it out, but it's not for me. It's nice enough if you want a simple desktop system, and APT rocks (especially with the aptitude front-end). But it's just not as good as openSUSE, sorry.

There
are excellent
instructions for installing/patching SUSE to play commercial
(CSS
encrypted) DVDs. I had no
trouble following them either. Wonder of wonders.

The whole issue
of libdvdcss being
“illegal”
in DMCA-enlisted
countries seems
to be mute now, from my perspective... so long as your intent is only to
watch movies that you have legally obtained (and not fincancial gain), then it
should be fine — if it's good enough for the MPAA, then it's good enough for
me. This would seem to me to work well with Australia's existing copyright
law, which specifically grants fair-use copying and playing anyway, and goes
against the dogma of the DMCA.